Monthly Archives: March 2015

And the bonus Eric Idle picture for the day is…

I called that one; Idle hearts make Idle hands.

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And now, today’s weird picture for Mr. Eric Idle…

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And now for something completely different, today’s picture for Mr. Eric Idle…

Uh, you don’t have to name this one… but I guess you can… if you want to…

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Yeah… because what I needed was another silly art project to get involved with… but I have now decided that Eric Idle is so nice to help me with my book, that I am going to make a silly picture for him and send it to him in Twitter everyday… since he is now following me on Twitter… and keep doing it until the crack squirrels in my head get bored or he begs me to stop…

I call this one; The Queen’s new earrings… It’s funny if you anything about the Monty Python movie; The Life Of Brian… Always look on the bright side of life.

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The long and sordid tale of how and why I started stalking celebrities on Twitter and how it led to me being followed by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame and Dana Carvey from Saturday Night Live…

It all started, as a surprising number of things in my life do, as a harmless joke. A little more than a year ago, when my older daughter Jessica was still in college, I found out that she was on Twitter. … Continue reading

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Holy crap… Eric Idle is following me on Twitter…

Details to follow…

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I went back in time… part 4…

These are the last of the pictures that Uncle Bert took at the civil war reenactment. I love that one. He used a Photoshop filter to give it the sepia tones of the old photos from that era. I still … Continue reading

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I went back in time… part 3…

Yup… they actually let me put the explosive primer caps into the top of the cannon and pull the lanyard that ignited the charge and set off the gunpowder inside the cannon. That is the actual cannon that was used during … Continue reading

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I went back in time… part 2…

Ten points if you noticed that I am not wearing any shoes… They didn’t have any size 15 shoes in the bins of spare uniform parts where they kept extra stuff for temporary volunteers like me. So I fired a … Continue reading

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What did I do yesterday??? I went back in time…

We went to see a little civil war reenactment in Vista, California yesterday, and I got recruited by the Richmond Howitzers. I have actually been thinking about joining one of these reenactment groups for quite a while, but I was … Continue reading

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